JB/117/129/003

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from the time of Edward the Confessor and altho' the feudal
restraints upon alienation are worn away and as much obliterated
from the mind of man as from the Statute Book. Yet I very
much question whether the legislative assembly would not pause
before they intirely for any pecuniary consideration surround the Dean
and Chapter to give up an estate which had for Ages been held
in *. The same objection tho' the disadvantage to the
purchaser and to the public will be the same does not hold to
their granting a lease for even so long a term of years provided
that in the said lease a certain rent is reserved to them
and then successors in this case the Purchase Money or rather
time will be considerably reduced. —

It may here be necessary to remark that with respect to the Old
Buildings called the Five Chimneys there is as I am informed a
possibility that the Professions of some of the Houses may claim a Right
independent of the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John: namely
the Right which long and undisturbed Profession gives. Some of these
Houses have been sold as Freehold and the Inhabitants have voted
at elections for the county &c.

*There fall in the several disabling statutes of the 1st., 13th. and 18th. Eliz &c.
The enabling Statute 32 Hen. 8th&c. (Heale).

Identifier: | JB/117/129/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-09-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	129	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	observations on the tothill fields inclosure bill
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	lady bentham	Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38746
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